Four people, including three kids, were killed in a house fire in Lafourche Parish early Thursday morning.
Ken Pastorick with the Louisiana Office of State Fire Marshal says firefighters were called to the home in Raceland at around 1:00 a.m.
“They found for deceased victims inside the house — a 20-year-old female, a 14-year-old male, a 12-year-old female and a six-year-old male,” says Pastorick.
One adult managed to escape.
“There was a 46-year-old woman who was an occupant of the home,” Pastorick says. “She was able to escape the fire, and she is hospitalized.”
Pastorick says while the cause is still under investigation, it’s possible that a lack of working smoke alarms may have made the difference between life and death.
“We were able to find three smoke alarms in the home but were not able to determine whether or not those three smoke alarms were working at the time,” says Pastorick. “We don’t believe they were.”
